A Proposal For The Designation Of Lunar Craters
In Honor Of Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) Crew
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COLONEL MICHAEL P. ANDERSON, U.S.A.F., 43, served as an Air
Force instructor pilot and tactical officer before joining NASA's
astronaut corps in 1994 (Group 15). He traveled to Russia's Mir
space station on his first and only other space flight, a nine-day
mission aboard the shuttle Endeavor (STS-89) in January
1998. During STS-107, he was in charge of Columbia's dozens
of science experiments.
Born on Christmas Day, 1959, in
Plattsburgh, N.Y., Lt. Col. Anderson — the son of a career Air
Force officer — considered the Spokane, Wash., area his home. He
was married and had two daughters. Graduated in 1977 from Cheney
High School in Cheney, Wash., he received a Bachelor of Science
degree in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Washington
in 1981, where he was a member of the Air Force ROTC. In 1990, he
earned a Master of Science degree in Physics from Creighton
University, Omaha, Neb.
After completing a year of technical
training at Keesler AFB in Mississippi, Lt. Col. Anderson was
assigned to Randolph AFB, Texas, where he served as Chief of
Communication Maintenance for the 2015th Communication Squadron
and later as Director of Information System Maintenance for the
1920th Information System Group.
In 1986 he was selected to attend
Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance AFB, Oklahoma. Upon
graduation he was assigned to the 2nd Airborne Command and Control
Squadron at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, as an EC-135 pilot, flying the
Strategic Air Command's prestigious airborne command post,
code-named "Looking Glass."
From January 1991 to September 1992,
Lt. Col. Anderson served as an aircraft commander and instructor
pilot in the 920th Air Refueling Squadron, Wurtsmith AFB,
Michigan. From September 1992 to February 1995 he was assigned as
an instructor pilot and tactics officer in the 380th Air Refueling
Wing, Plattsburgh AFB, New York, his birthplace. He logged over
3000 hours in various models of the KC-135 and the T-38A aircraft
during his military career; during his interment ceremony at
Arlington National Cemetery, a KC-135 Stratotanker — refueling
boom extended — overflew the site in a tribute to Lt. Col.
Anderson, the same model he piloted as an instructor before taking
his NASA assignment.
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